the stories that shape to the international riots on capitol hill in washington leave 5 people dead with dozens of protesters charged and arrested. in the wake of the chaos twitter and facebook donald trump accusing him of inciting his supporters to commit violent. u.k. court refuses to extradite julian assange to the u.s. where he is wanted on espionage charges but his supporters are left frustrated after a bail request is turned down. this is a. great great journey.

to the survival of the human rights. come from this rationale and this whole narrative criminal why. algeria becomes the 1st african nation to approve the coronavirus vaccine that's as one and a half 1000000 people in russia itself have already received the jab. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is archie international and we start with wednesday's storming of capitol hill when thousands of supporters kun verged in washington for a last ditch stop the steel rally shortly after an address by the president they marched to congress and invaded the building.

5 people died as a result of the unrest including a 35 year old air force veteran who was shot by police dozens of protesters have been charged and arrested argument has been swung witness the events. well the atmosphere out here is absolutely incredible right now as you can see president trump is speaking addressing a huge crowd which is over by the white house but we're all backed up all the way to the washington monument. we know that people were storming into the capitol we know that tear gas was fired and we also know that rubber bullets were fired but i was just showing video a minute ago it from inside the capitol of a young woman on a stretcher bleeding pretty proof usually had a lot of blood on the side of her head on the side of her neck and. a.

number of police the secret service were saying get back get down get out of the way she did leave the car and as we kind of raced up to grab people pull them back they shot her in the neck and she fell back on me and started to say she's fine it's cool and then she started kind of like moving weird and blood was coming out the mouth and neck and nose just behind me there are thousands of people there on the other side of me there are thousands of people so you know when when those folks moved from the from the trump rally and speech where we were before down at the washington monument and they began to move this way it's a sea of people. way up at the top of this building apparently there are still people attempting to break into the capitol building there banging on the windows up there.

what we're seeing are a series of flash bangs that keep going off it's the upper part of this this platform area over on the left hand side back towards the bill. the young woman who was shot in the neck or head area apparently was part of 81st wave of people who pushed and you hear those why the way more of those flash bangs going off. so still things are about to get a little bit rough here let's just pan over here negative so we have the capitol police are coming through we've got to move on ok we're being told we have to move on by capitol police.

ok it's a much quieter minus the police sirens here right there but there are very few people out right now no you know the last time we came to you all week we got cut off because capitol police were moving everyone out what was happening at that moment was we saw the capitol police come essentially with their right shields are . all living former u.s. presidents have condemned the violence barack obama called it a great dishonor and shame for the nation while george w. bush branded it an insurrection worthy of a banana republic with more his art he's got more gusta. these scenes a usually an act of desperation i reproved heston's and disenchanted view does parliament and government pub pounds willed water from believe year to get stung or what america didn't expect was to find itself on that least this is how elections

a disputed in a but non republic not solid democratic republic but non a republic usually an unstable country with a huge wealth gap and reliant on the export of limited resources so how could this happen to america a nation that exploited regime change and revolution the new bully we salute the courage and strength to believe in people who have protested against a government trying to steal an election the united states supports the courageous decision by juan gado the president of your national assembly to assert that body's constitutional powers declare madeira are your serp are and call for the establishment of a transitional government with 15 weeks of protests jason hometown has sent us john a staring message to the rest of the world about the trains of freedom and justice turns out it's not soufan when it happens to you today was

a dark day in the history of the united states capitol we witnessed yesterday was not the scent. it was not disorder it was not protest it was chaos a shameful course made or in our democracy it was an embarrassment and dual sides came out of this looking ugly the right for storming america's quaint temple of democracy the left for pretending they're actually against violent protests despite months of rockets and violent b.l.m. demonstrations and fiasco the season the sort of thing that's supposed to happen in america this is banana republic that we're watching happen this is what you expect to see in a banana republic journalists with equally confused a feeling of disbelief seemed to grip them to surreal i feel like i'm talking to a correspondent reporting from the you know bogota c.n.n.

quickly became the subject of ridicule online as they haven't been attempts to storm the colombian parliament in decades to into olds who had a stellar movement listing who and why do venezuela's self-proclaimed president among the leaders who condemned what happened in capitol hill who won why do over the past few years has repeatedly attempted a violent seizure of power attacks an army base and even climbed over the parliament fence him self. what happened will stay in america's record for good this isn't something that you can just forget the holds of congress should have and a terrible precedent set. these very. pro-american references to a banana republic harkens back to the times of colonialism when the us invaded that

eye which is 14 times in the beginning of the 20th century they want to project that this is a pristine democracy because how can they justify tensions with say. one mosque ownby jame in holcim in-city if they don't have their own house in order for us let's be very clear we're talking about a democracy for the plutocrats and technocrats and big capital big money then yes the united states is a democracy if we're talking about democracy by and for the people not by and for the rich the ruling class. in the united states is a disgrace in terms of very serious measure of democracy we heard the views from a number of guests into the political crisis unfolding in the u.s. . this is sit decision this is an act to overthrow the u.s.

government people died this is beyond crazy this is a criminal act this is unprecedented i don't know that any point is certainly in recent american history has a group of has a mob essentially tried to storm the capitol during a basically a routine procedure i mean this is not the election this is the vote certification which normally gets basically no media coverage it's just routine and to see this level of iron this level of of anger and hate and passion really shows that things have kind of got off the rails and there actually is great precedent more of this we look back in history we didn't realize that the date when the documents 'd that were style next week of the declaration of independence those are mutually contracts signed by who agreed to be governed a certain way and when they decided that they were no longer the great mr governor

as americans i actually believe that the contract allows us to say we have you know how we don't like how things are going and we want a change we didn't we didn't change we voted our vote is not the cart and that's how the people feel me you have a right to make their voices heard trump is very cleverly brilliantly shifted the narrative from basically i lost an election to i was wrong by the evil system facebook and twitter are just just censoring the president they're censoring basically anybody with a with a position that doesn't go along with the silicon valley narrative do they have the right to do it sure because does the government have a responsibility to cease any involvement with facebook definitely and most importantly do we have as a as a community have the responsibility to say yeah i'm not going to be part of a an organization that censors people absolutely i'm not. ending mr zuckerberg here trust me i'm not but he owns the real estate i'm walking on his lawn he's not

walking on my lawn if he decides that you've got to wear green had on my lawn that i have to wear green hat or i get kicked off his lawn if he wants to charge me for being on his lawn that i might have an expectation of privacy or protection or freedom of speech but i'm on his lawn his rules. after the storming of the capitol social media giants have blocked. twitter has permanently suspended the president's personal account which had 88000000 followers accusing him of inciting violence that triggered a war of words over the power companies now possess we are living in all wells 19 eighty-four free speech no longer exists in america it died with what's left is only there for a chosen few this is absolute insanity to it it may ban me for this but i'm willing to accept the fight your decision to permanently ban president trump has a serious mistake the ayatollah can tweets but trump can't says

a lot about the people who run twitter now is the time to sell it and valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior and go even further than they have already by permanently but in this manner from their platforms and put in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to feel insurrection donald trump spent years demagoguing lying spreading hate and propagating conspiracies into into and divorce inciting violence social media companies have allowed this vile content to fester for too long and need to do much more but banning him is a good start. silicon valley has been busy former national security advisor michael flynn and x. trumpet lawyer sidney powell are among the president's high profile supporters who have had their twitter accounts frozen you 2 joined in banning trump's former chief strategist steve bannon while conservative social media platform parlor was deleted from google play and apple's app store for failing to moderate content posted by

users amazon has prevented parlor from using its servers as well in response people have been getting creative on social media.

it's not the end of the day for trump unless he has no platform laughter and that's exactly what they're trying to do so this is politically motivated censorship he's trying not to be silenced but he is being silenced what i read into it is that he has more to say and that he's you know he's going to continue despite the fact that he's given a mere concession speech he's going to get tenure to call the election fraud reliant or at least based on widespread fraud and malfeasance they have been

a political force them they've been driving censorship and propaganda for the last 40 years at least which was increased during the election season so there's no surprise now that given the incident in d.c. on january 6th that they have decided i don't really band it's quite a shocking development i think. a british judge this week blocked to join us on his extradition to the us where he is wanted on espionage charges but the wiki leaks founder was denied bail and will remain in prison shaadi edwards dosti was outside the courthouse in london when the news broke so actually crunk was the decision that was ruled in favor of 2 innocent seem to state the judge was describing the right one this case is a final decision for many people his supporters and campaign as did celebrating liking each other sometimes. it's true god.

was. as long as julian has to endure suffering and isolation as an unconvicted prisoner infomercial prison and as long as our children continue to beat the rest of their father's love and affection. we cannot celebrate. we will celebrate the day he comes home a glimpse of hope to start the new year and hopefully a new era. it is a day. they are with win for julia. but we have. it is not necessarily a win for journalists so although today is a victory in essence for judas and the judge did of course say that it was not politically motivated enough

a serious concern for journalism going forward on the future of journalism as well you know i spoke to rebecca vincent from reporters without borders and she says that journalist needs to be protected so we read the very much and share the court's assessment of his serious mental health arrests but we're concerned that the rest of the decision leaves the door open for possible other prosecutions on similar grounds because until that point she came to that point at the decision it seems very much that the case would have been in favor of the prosecution so without the mental health issues at play somebody else in that same situation could have indeed been extradited to the u.s. to face charges there so this pointed out broader systemic issues that need to be addressed the not the espionage act must be reformed it locks the public interest offense if any publisher any journalist any source finds himself subject to similar proceedings they cannot adequately defend themselves so as you just heard press freedom advocates are not happy about the court's view on the charges against a song we spoke to some of his high profile supporters including rock legend roger

waters. this is a battle not just for the life of a one great truly great journalist julian and sometimes it's a battle for the survival of the human race if we give up the filthy states if we allow. the united states government to crucify a journalist on the grounds that he revealed war crimes by them. then we give up our access to the real when they say you can believe the intelligence and if somebody comes along and says actually you know what that's not true this government murdered journalists by machine gunning them from a helicopter in baghdad in 2007 and we know they did and here is the proof and

we're going to publish it and then and and then we would say you can't do that because if you do we're going to kill you is that the well we want to live in. in offense to the system has succeeded in intimidating the world and passing the message that this is what's going to happen to you if ever you have the idea of publishing our dirty. secrets and making that known to the world the judgment it comes from this rationale and this whole narrative of criminalizing investigative journalism and before blowing at it avoids even to the tiny risks that it would still have that its own supreme court and the u.s. might overturn the judgment against to in essence based on on the 1st amendment the constitution as was done in the pentagon papers we have to recognize that other investigative journalist just who may not have. important health

issue could still be extradited to the u.s. base and exactly the same charges. we are still very concerned by. the mentation of the british call it didn't. take into consideration all the good reasons you know to release. julian assange. as a journalist you know just as an actor or media actor in any case there are some discussions on the fact journalist or easy. in any case he committed a journalistic act you know by revealing. war crimes. by u.s. government in. iraq and afghanistan so you know if you acted as a journalist and. protection as

a journalist the u.s. justice department has said it is extremely disappointed by britain's refusal to extradite julian assange and said it will appeal but the committee to protect journalists and geo is urging washington to drop all charges we heartened that a british court has denied the united states request to extradite julian a son the u.s. government's decision to charge the wiki leaks founder said harmful legal precedent for the prosecution of journalists around the world simply interacting with their sources we have the u.s. department of justice to refrain from further pursuing extradition through appeals and to drop all charges against a stone age it is not the 1st time the u.k. has blocked an american extradition request on mental health grounds in 2002 were dish a hacker gary mckinnon was accused of breaching u.s. military computer systems if found guilty he could face up to 70 years in prison stateside after a decade long legal battle theresa may the then home secretary refused to send him

to the u.s. citing the risk of suicide r.t. spoke exclusively to mr mckinnon about the case and the parallels to his own experience. we should even be in this position you know 70 is in the ecuadorian embassy the best part of today is in belmarsh prison for telling the truth you know he's not a criminal. jury and did their best to always ensure that they have the intelligence assets in danger and it really has been journalism on trial mainly in the gym elites of the heavy handed us authorities but also exacerbated by this particularly imbalanced treaty we have between britain and america can only imagine judy this is exactly the same as when i was under house arrest it was that my own house not and i could organise a. it really is. incredibly difficult it's awful i got to the point of suicide i'm short periods and suicidal thoughts and you're trying to maintain normality you're trying to fight your case you're trying to live as normal

a life as you can but you've got this unbearable pressure inside and when it goes on for 7 years 10 years it gets worse and worse and worse it is really really difficult to handle. algeria has become the 1st african nation to approve the russian sputnik v. vaccine as part of an urgent inoculation campaign planned for this month jab is already in use in a number of countries including argentina and serbia while in russia more than a 1000000 and a half doses have already been administered putting the country among the early leaders when it comes to vaccination programs and well ahead of many e.u. states now european nations are currently struggling with a new highly infectious strain of the crowd a virus in russia one case has so far been confirmed by the country's chief sanitary doctor although she maintained the sputnik vaccine will still prove effective against. from our data testing systems used in russia can identify the

strain and vaccines registered in russia definitely provide protection against this strain earlier my colleague unit o'neill spoke with dr john dombrowski who is a pain management expert at the washington pain center he believes the easier way sputnik v. is stored is a selling point to such countries. this is a 1st world problem that they haven't asked me stuart so cold so we're straight in the making of us wells in america but for the continent of africa this is not even start you know i'm going to place start sputnik 5 thanks gene is easier to just store in a north american country with maybe less you know sophisticated storage material for another way of getting it out to the population for the globe that is more accessible is is very important the russian vaccine developers claim their job will prove effective against that how confident can they be at this stage he said when you work with an a if you viral vaccination you're looking at certain proteins of the virus and

perhaps there's always something in common with a new strain hopefully they've caught sure that aspect of the protein where you could have you know resistance or taxi immunity with both the coke and one you know the coated 1000 as well as do bury it so it is very positive. also this week england entered its 3rd lockdown since the spring british prime minister boris johnson said he hopes the renewed restrictions will contain a highly contagious variant of cove it which is currently spreading through the country that's as the u.k.'s daily infection rate hovers around the $60000.00 mark we now have a new variant of the virus and it's been both frustrating and looming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading. and scientists have confirmed these new variant is between 50 and 70 percent more transmissible in england we was there for going to a national which is tough enough to contain this variant full circle to to

last march when we were told to stay home protect the n.h.s. and to save lives and that mantra was repeated by boris johnson again today and his influence once again what it means simply enough is that people in england. being told to stay home except for a number of reasons essential shopping work if that work can't be done from home exercise urgent medical needs or in cases where someone is threatened with domestic violence and has to get out there's also significant pressure coming for parents and students as primary and secondary schools will move to remote learning from to morrow and the closure of schools is a major government u. turn as the pm had said that he was determined the primary schools at least in england would stay open just before johnson's and nouns meant the scottish mainland also moved into lockdown under the new rules people are required to stay home and work remotely if possible and wales and northern ireland have had stricter measures

in place since late december. the world health organization's special covert envoy david navarro feels that there is a limit to how tough you can be with a virus as societies need economies as well lock down is designed to reduce transmission by reducing contacts the new variant that is being discovered in kane . is now clearly why widespread small transmissible so that does mean that if you want to get the same effect from the law firm with the new very end it has to be. tough but you know there's a limit as to how tough you could make a lot down in any society without then damaging the society so that's why all governments have really very very tricky choices right now they have to decide to what degree they're prepared to ask their citizens to put up with any

convenience all the psycho getting they transmission to stop what does it for me for this hour and actually for the weekly for that matter but don't worry my colleague kevin owen he'll be here in just about 30 minutes time with another full and fresh look at news this is march international. last week it was an assault on the nation's capital what does this tell us about the state of american politics is there still a place to disagree and to say importantly is the idea of a loyal opposition still exists.

time after time to see and welcome to going underground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting on my birthday january 13th but until then we will be showing some of your favorite shows from this season going up in this show will trump lose in tuesday's presidential election thanks to cohabit killing hundreds of thousands of us citizens we go to the white house to speak to one of the only 2 men the us president apparently listens to on the pandemic white house going to virus a top school survives a professor scott atlas he tells us why he thinks lockdowns mass testing and mosques go to hold up all of them all coming up in today's going on the ground 1st with just days ahead of the u.s. presidential election which will have a global impact as a global coronavirus pandemic continues to take lives not least in the.